Physics and imagination
An essay in Entangle: Physics and the Artistic Imagination ed. Ariane Koek. (Hatje Cantz Verlay, 2019). Available here.
Other Publications
Seas and seeing
Catalogue essay for the exhibition When Red Disappears by artist Elspeth Diederix (Fw:Books, 2019). See here. (The book is gorgeous!)
Color and culture
Essay for the book The Genealogy of Color by artist Emilia Azcarate (Turner Editions, 2019).
Utopian City
An essay for the exhibition The City is the City by the Dream Adoption Society, Zbigniew Raszewski Theatre Institute, Warsaw, 2019. Available here.
Entries in Alice and Bob Meet the Wall of Fire: The Biggest Ideas in Science from Quanta
Contains my essays on the thermodynamics of life and on quantum reconstructions. MIT Press, November 2018.
Entries in 30-Second Einstein
Entries in 30-Second Einstein (ed. B. Clegg). Ivy Press, New York, 2016.
Entries in 30-Second Physics
Entries in 30-Second Physics (ed. B. Clegg). Ivy Press, New York, 2016.
BBC.co.uk
EARTH
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FUTURE
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20120611 greener cleaner fireworks
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20121220 science solves cutting edge issue
20130116 the hidden patterns in nature
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20130129 how are we wired for sound
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Contributions in The Science Book
Contributions in The Science Book (ed. P. Tallack) (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2001).